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21 Jan 2014, 6:21 pm

I am physically exhausted right now as my meds are kicking in. But my brain is so overactive. I keep coming up with little theories or turning my surroundings into numbers and manipulating those numbers to find patterns. So basically I'm going to be forced to fight this tiredness because my brain wants to stay up.

I like my overactive brain though because it comes up with some interesting stuff.

Is anyone else like this?


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21 Jan 2014, 6:33 pm

Wired and Tired I call it. It happens to me and I just ride it out. It always goes away eventually.



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21 Jan 2014, 6:34 pm

I get like this if I have 3 days of insomnia in a row. I believe it is a form of hypomania. I do not like it at all.


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21 Jan 2014, 7:46 pm

I call this state just "wired." It's where I'm exhausted but can't relax enough to sleep. Happens a lot.


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22 Jan 2014, 5:06 am

My 'wired' state is when I feel like I'm on drugs, my thoughts are racing and I can't concentrate on one thing for longer than 5 minutes.

I had the state you describe earlier. I had done sooo much reading and whatever else and I'm was too tired to go on. It just takes a bit of rest and then I start up again.

It's not related to my autism.


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22 Jan 2014, 6:08 pm

Ja. Recently, when I tried to get some sleep after waking up early, as I've been having some disturbed sleep lately, Just when I started dreaming, there was this rapid succession of random images; my brain kept trying to make sense of them, to no avail, which aggravated me and woke me up--the succession of images then stopped. At times, I can become wrapped up in a subject or an argument which can disrupt my sleep.

I told my therapist about this recently, and he says my problem is that I try to analyze everything too much, myself, others, and the world, and that when I'm sleeping I need to just let the flow of thoughts be. I'm not quite sure how to do that, though.


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22 Jan 2014, 6:50 pm

It happens to me a lot. Physically I will be exhausted but my mind wants to just keep "playing". It's mostly fun, except the next morning when I have to get up and haven't had enough sleep.



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23 Jan 2014, 3:12 am

beneficii wrote:
Ja. Recently, when I tried to get some sleep after waking up early, as I've been having some disturbed sleep lately, Just when I started dreaming, there was this rapid succession of random images; my brain kept trying to make sense of them, to no avail, which aggravated me and woke me up--the succession of images then stopped. At times, I can become wrapped up in a subject or an argument which can disrupt my sleep.

I told my therapist about this recently, and he says my problem is that I try to analyze everything too much, myself, others, and the world, and that when I'm sleeping I need to just let the flow of thoughts be. I'm not quite sure how to do that, though.


Not sure how you can control it when you're asleep. Maybe if you tried to control the analyzing during the day it will continue into the dream world. I'm just as bad though. When I have some really busy dreams I can wake up exhausted from them.

Right now I'm worn out but I want to still keep going. I'll eventually get my energy back but I want it now.


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25 Jan 2014, 9:06 am

My brain is buzzing like a bee all the time.


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25 Jan 2014, 10:38 am

Janissy wrote:
Wired and Tired I call it. It happens to me and I just ride it out. It always goes away eventually.


That's what I call it too. :lol:

I'm probably like that 5 days out of 7. Been up since 4:30 this morning after getting 3 hours sleep. been to work, trying to sell s**t to unsuspecting people and coming up with new and inventive ways how to do so.

I'm at home now absolutely fuct off my face. Too tired to stay awake but too wired to fall asleep.

I think I did get a cat nap in work though but I was still talking to people.

Oh well. Lets hope a get a good 8 hours tonight.


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